Friday, March 2, 2012

Prayer - C. S. Lewis

Master, they say that when I seem

To be in speech with you,

Since you make no replies, it's all a dream

—One talker aping two.


They are half right, but not as they

Imagine; rather, I

Seek in myself the things I meant to say,

And lo! the wells are dry.


Then, seeing me empty, you forsake

The Listener's rôle, and through

My dead lips breathe and into utterance wake

The thoughts I never knew.


And thus you neither need reply

Nor can; thus, while we seem

Two talking, thou art One forever, and I

No dreamer, but thy dream.

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